THE WORLD FLIGHT.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. M ACL AREN RESUMES FLIGHT. LONDON, March 26 A message from Havre states that Maclaren resumed the round the world flight at eleven this morning. A NARROW ESCAPE. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). 'Received this dav at 9.25 a.in.) LONDON, March 20.
Maclaren in a message from Havre, describes how the world flight narrowly escaped disaster at its inception. Jfc started at a height of six hundred feet and encountered a cloud of mist. It grew thicker and lie dropped to three hundred and then to 150. He altered his course and rose one hundred feet. It was difficult to see anytliWfg. Suddenly cliffs loomed ahead and Plenderleith with magnificent presence of mind opensl the throttle and made Immelmann turn with a bank of ninety degrees, clearing the cliffs only by a few feet. They landed in the sea and taxied along the coast and moored to a buoy at Havre. McLaren arrives at i.yons. [Reuters Telegrams.) (Received this day at 10.45 a.m.) LONDON. March 20. -MucLaieu has arrived at Lyons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1924, Page 3
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